Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Whompers of the 1st Royal Regiment of Hoppers

Greetings friends! My first entry to the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge were some Eureka frogs from their "Pond Wars" miniature line. I dug these up from the lost realm known as the lead pile. When I entered into this challenge I told myself I would not buy any new miniatures, but focus on making a dent in my lead pile. [Yes, Ray, I'm still holding strong but the shakes are getting worse!] In the process, maybe I'd complete or at least revive a few stagnant projects. When I found all these frog warriors in my lead pile I thinking, "Why have I never painted these? They're hilarious!"

So, here's the first batch of frog warriors. I went online to look at how to paint a frog and discovered frogs have all kinds of colorful patterns. Now considering the AHPC's scoring is based on the number of miniatures painted, I'm a bit of my own worst enemy here. I saw the red-eyed tree frogs and thought, "I want to do that!" As you can guess it took a lot longer than just painting them green and white. Oh well, I really like the results and hope you do as well.

On Eureka's site they are noted as carrying mallets, but I kept thinking "whompers" sounded more appropriate!

Oh my!!! Really Rod, these are perfect! When I started reading your post I thought these were pics from the Eureka site...then I realized these are your doing!! WOW!!!! Congratulations on a superb job!!! Cheers!

Hi. Those figures looks just like Bullywugs from D&Dhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullywug

Your work is really top level, I myslef sadly had to stop building and painting a Warhammer 40k army over a decade ago for financial reasons. But look on little pieces of fine art like those I see here makes my heart beat a little faster and thinking about one more try

Yes sir, I do remember Bullywugs! Thank you for the kind comment. I understand about the 40k armies. They can be expensive. But there's plenty of smaller scale games to get into if you get the desire. Thanks for stopping by!